"Tade, let's talk."
There were bursts of harsh noises coming from the crystal, like a sharp instrument scratching a blackboard. In the midst of this uncomfortable background sound, a somewhat distorted human voice suddenly spoke.
Fang Yu looked at Luo Yu who was aside, and then looked at the recording crystal on the table. "Is this the sound recorded in the monastery that day?" he suddenly asked. Luo Yu nodded. That day they went to the monastery to investigate the shadow man's attack. The voice recorded in this crystal was the only gain.
"Tianlan analyzed the voice line? It was faster than I thought."
"We contacted some private audio laboratories on the other side of the stargate to help and distributed some of the tasks."
Fang Yu was a little surprised. He remembered that the price of this type of audio laboratory was quite high, right? "Who paid?"
"Tianlan herself and Miss Ai Xiaoxiao also paid part of it." Luo Yu replied.
Two little rich women, Fang Pliance thought to himself. Ai Xiaoxiao was not surprised. He had always known that his cousin's best friend was a rich girl. However, Tian Lan was just as he imagined. He had a high status in Twelve Color Iris, so he could run around so freely.
He turned around, and at this moment a second person's voice sounded in the crystal: "What do you want to talk about, Finn?"
"We need to talk about that crystal, Tad."
"What do you think of what we escorted?"
"The Chosen Ones have gone to bed, so I'll get straight to the point. You know the origin of that thing is not consistent with what we claim. It didn't come from Gula, but was here from the beginning. We paid for it. It’s not a small price to pay, have you heard that rumor?”
"You're overthinking, Finn," the second voice seemed a little calm, "It arrived here later than you thought, and it has nothing to do with the dark history in the rumors."
"But this place was once the property of the Clairvaux family, the place where the Crow King finally drank his hatred. He was arrogant, proclaimed himself king, and was attacked by the coalition forces. The king at the time, Eisen IV, personally ordered him to be executed Hanging – it’s here that people say his ghost haunts him to this day.”
"That's just a rumor. How many people have actually seen that magic sword?" A second voice interrupted: "The Clairvaux family has become a thing of the past, just like many things of that era."
"But this monastery was built to seal the soul of the Crow King. But we have been underground, and the other's shrine has long since disappeared, leaving only an inexplicable replacement. But the age of that armor The history is much more recent than that of the Clairvaux family, and that may be his descendant——"
"He has no descendants, Finn," the second voice said louder: "I don't know where you heard this rumor, but everyone in the Clairvaux family died in that war. Including the Crow King himself.”
"I don't want to discuss the Crow King and the Clairvaux family with you, Tad," the first voice replied: "I just want to tell you that someone once came here, decades ago, and took away The coffin of the Crow King. And it is inconsistent with the information given to us by the Crow Claw Temple. That crystal is not harmless. We paid the price of several people to get it..."
"Second, where did the crystal in Gula Port come from?"
The second voice was silent for a moment, and then answered: "Our task is just to bring it back, Finn, this is an order from the Archon, and it was confirmed by the order signed by the Grand Master himself. We Your job is to follow orders and nothing else.”
"But, Tad."
"I will report all this truthfully to His Excellency the Grand Master," the second voice interrupted again, "until I return to El Paxin, but before that, I don't want to discuss it anymore."
The sound behind suddenly turned into a scream, so harsh that Fang Plover couldn't help but take a step back, and then there was a messy sound. Among the suddenly high-pitched noise, a stern warning came: "Be careful behind you." , Tad, there’s something in that direction!”
"Damn it, wake up everyone else-"
Then there was the sound of the exchange of swords, which was so sharp that it almost exceeded the limit of human hearing.
Various sounds compounded together and finally turned into a monotonous high-pitched tone, which lasted for several minutes before gradually coming to a rest.
After this sharp sound, like a sharp instrument carving on the glass, everything gradually turned into nothingness. In the recording crystal, a purple flame actually ignited, and then turned into an eye, quietly He stared at the room in silence for a moment.
Fang Yu watched the eye disappear into nothingness in the darkness, and a feeling seemed to arise naturally in his heart - someone had seen them. He opened his mouth and could not make any sound for a long time.
"What is that?" After a while, he asked.
What is recorded in the recording crystal is only sound, but where did the last picture come from?
The thrilling purple flame appeared repeatedly in his mind, as if it were lifelike, watching them there.
Luo Yu shook his head, and then replied: "I think that's the power that stayed there, disturbing these voices. Although we don't quite know why this conversation was left in that place, maybe It has nothing to do with this force.”
What is that power?
Fang Yu recalled the purple flame in his mind and wondered if it was also related to the shadow man?
He thought quietly for a moment, but could not draw any further conclusion other than guessing, so he returned his thoughts to the previous conversation. He looked at the former and asked, "What do you think about that conversation?"
"The two people in the conversation, the former is the great knight of the Silver Wind Knights, and should also be the leader of this operation. The knight named Finn, I have not found him, maybe he is just an ordinary knight of the Knights That’s all.”
"Have you asked Saya if the Oak Knights of Tapolis also participated in this escort?"
Luo Yu shook his head.
Fang Yu took out the communication crystal and sent a message to the team channel, asking Hongye and Saya to come here and take a look. He asked again: "Who is the Crow King?"
"Ainoson Clairvaux, a descendant of Edwin's eldest son Evans, the last generation of head of the Claveaux family in the north." A flash of silver light, Miss Tata appeared on his shoulder, and replied softly: " I have heard his name, and they say he was so arrogant that he bordered on madness, proclaimed himself king, and made the entire kingdom an enemy—and then he was defeated and killed, and with him the entire House of Clairvaux."
Fang Yu turned around a little surprised and asked, "Miss Tata, what did you remember?"
Tata shook his head: "There are only some scattered memories, but it is more like knowledge than memory. I have never forgotten knowledge."
"That at least means that the period of time when you were sleeping should be within the period of history four hundred years ago to the present, otherwise you would not have heard of this Crow King," Fang Plover said, "I think this may be a The way to do this is to look at which period of history you know is closest to today, so maybe you can determine the era you came from."
But Miss Goblin shook her head again: "I'm afraid this won't work. There are some memories that it's difficult for me to recall on my own initiative. They are like fragments floating in the darkness. When you mention them, Mr. Knight, I can Looking back, it’s just like this Crow King.”
"Then if we have time," Fang Yu thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe we can discuss history."
Tata raised his eyes to look at it, nodded and said: "Thank you, Mr. Knight."
But there is no need to say this, because both of them can feel each other's feelings - the feeling of being connected, as if they are the most tacit understanding of people in their lives. Everything is self-evident, and they only need to exchange With one look, you can understand what the other person is thinking.
The Nanami Traveler was not big. At this time, Hongye and Saya had already opened the door and entered. Luo Yu turned around and looked at each other. Hongye looked at him curiously and asked with his eyes, what happened here?
Fang Yu didn't beat around the bush, he went straight to the point and asked the two about the details of the operation. The main person he was questioning was actually Saya, and Hongye just asked him to come here to confirm the internal situation of the Tapolis Oak Knights.
After listening to the two people's questions, Saya nodded directly.
The female swordsman said that the leader of the Silver Wind Knights at that time, and the person who contacted them, was none other than Grand Knight Tad. After receiving an affirmative answer, Fang Yu remained silent for a moment before asking: "After they were attacked by the Shadow Man that night, no other abnormalities occurred?"
Saya looked at him a little confused, not quite sure what this meant?
"What I mean is," Fang Yu said, "Everyone of them has been resurrected?"
"Ed, you asked me this question once, and I remember answering, every one of them came back to life."
"Then they have all returned to Elpaxin, many of them, including the great knight Tad and the knight named Finn."
Saya was a little confused: "I don't know exactly, but that should be the case."
"What about your people who are going to El Paxin with them?" Fang Plover asked.
"They should still be in El Pashin, under house arrest there."
"Can you contact those people?"
Saya frowned slightly, looked at him, and then nodded.
"Then can you confirm this with them and see if everyone has returned to Elpaxin, including the great knight Tad."
"Now?" Saya asked a little surprised.
"This is important to us right now, Miss Saya."
Hongye looked at them and couldn't help but ask: "What happened, Ed?"
But Fang Yu shook his head. He did have some doubts in his heart, but all this still needs reliable evidence to confirm. The power that appeared on the recording crystal was obviously evil, and in the voice recorded in the crystal, the things mentioned in that conversation were also full of doubts in hindsight.
What the Crow King left behind seems to have something to do with the armor under the monastery, and it is almost inseparable from the dark power. More importantly, the 'escorted object' mentioned by the two men was the crystal.
The knight named Finn claimed that he felt great uneasiness from the crystal. For this reason, he even argued with the leader of the operation, a great knight. They paid a lot of money to get 'that thing', and what exactly is that crystal?
At this moment, Saya was taking out the communication crystal and seemed to be contacting Elpaxin. She nodded from time to time and was confirming the news sent back from there.
She raised her head at this time and gestured to Fang Plover with her eyes - that's exactly what happened. Everyone returned to Elpaxin, including the great knight named Tad.
But Fang Yu did not continue to ask about the attack that night, but instead asked:
"Is that thing really lost, about what the Knights escorted?"
"That's what they claim," Saya put down the communication crystal and replied, "It is for this reason that the guild got into a lot of trouble."
But Fang Yu always felt that in the recorded voice, the attack was too coincidental. Why did the shadow man fight for the crystal and take it away from the monastery?
Moreover, the two knights mentioned in the conversation that there is another crystal in Gula Port. The first crystal has always existed underground in the monastery outside Gray Owl Town, and they seemed to be aware of that in Gula Port. The origin of this crystal is doubtful.
'Secondly, where did the crystal in Gula Port come from? '
These are the exact words of the knight of Finn——
This sentence may not sound like a big deal to other people, but Fang Yu couldn't help but recall the scene he saw in the castle not long ago.
In the phantom, the thing held up by the woman from the pool happened to be a crystal. The two were such a coincidence that it was difficult for him not to connect the two things together. If the crystal they saw under Snowstone Castle happened to be the crystal mentioned in the conversation between the two knights, what about the crystal in Gula Port?
The Shadow Man, the Crystal, the Crow's Claw Temple, and the missing Chosen One.
Except for the last point, it seems that the shadows of the first three can be seen in different events that happened in the two places. If there is only one thing in common, it can be said to be a coincidence, but there are not so many coincidences in the world. Similar to?
Is there any potential connection between these two incidents that they are not aware of?
Since everything that happened in the Snow Stone Castle might be closely related to their current situation, Fang Plover had to think deeply about whether there were any details that he had not discovered.
He looked at Hongye and Saya, and suddenly asked: "Do you still remember what happened to the Dragon Fire Guild?" They both nodded, especially the former, who personally participated in the Dolifen incident, how could he forget? Come on? As an upper-middle-class member of the Oak Knights, Saya obviously knew the inside story of this matter.
Fang Yu was silent for a moment before asking again: "Then I have a hypothesis. Do you think it is possible that the same situation exists in the Tapolis Oak Knights? I mean, this is just a hypothesis, Miss Saya. , are those who participated in this operation, including some senior members of the Oak Knights, also involved in the Dragon Fire Guild?"
Both of them widened their eyes.
"This is impossible," Hongye said first: "Although they have disagreements with Miss Yugudola and the others, they have not reached that point. I know many of those people, and I am also familiar with the high-level decisions. They have participated, but they will never be complicit with the cultists."
Saya also slowly shook her head, indicating that this statement was somewhat undesirable.
Fang Yu couldn't help but fell silent when he saw the two people's reactions.
…
In the busy captain's hall of the Red Queen, Liu Ying was looking at Kaka beside him a little nervously.
"How's it going?" She finally couldn't help but ask, "Did you find it?"
Kaka wore goggles on his head, and while raising the control gloves in his hand, he replied weakly: "That's so fast, and there are a total of eight search teams here, and I am just one of them. Just ask me what What’s the use, am I so lucky, my eldest lady?”
"luck?"
Six Shadows' voices were a little suspicious, and they seriously doubted the reliability of the guy in front of them.
"Luck is really important," Kaka replied: "In such a large-scale operation, personal strength only accounts for a small part. Of course, the more clockwork fairies you control, the higher the chance of discovering the opponent. The bigger it gets. But in general, it still depends on the appearance.”
Liuying asked very suspiciously: "Really, but why do I always feel that you are making excuses for your fishing behavior?"
"That's part of the reason," Kaka said frankly, "but even if I'm lazy, my efficiency is better than others, and that's enough, isn't it? And this is really not an excuse. In fact, luck plays a big role in It’s really important for the selectors.”
He raised his left hand and turned the camera with a click, while adding: "Many people regard Aitaria as an information-based world that does not exist. They even regard it as a 'game'. Have you ever heard of the fourth level of the game?"
Liu Ying was very resistant to the other party's strange talk, but he still couldn't help his curiosity and asked: "What is the fourth level?"
"Liver, ditch, face, touch."
"What the hell is that?"
"As the name suggests, the former is the extent to which people work hard for it. Of course, this effort is also different from person to person. After all, you have to admit that there are workaholics in this world who can really not sleep. If you only have eight hours a day, If you are leveling up for 2 hours, it is very likely that it will not be as good as a madman who is leveling up for 16 hours a day."
Kaka replied matter-of-factly.
"This is not natural," the girl frowned, "So this is the liver. I probably understand, but what about the last three?"
"Hao is easy to understand, right? Have you ever heard of RMT?"
"This concept is old enough." Liu Ying had heard of this statement before. A long time ago, people called this behavior 'RMB players'.
"That's not necessarily the case. The real wealth can be transformed in Aitaria," Kaka replied: "Otherwise, where do you think the Grand Guild comes from? Realistic investment can also affect the world. Of course, this depends on how entrenched you are."
"What about face and touch?"
"Touch means tentacle. It used to be used to describe a person's high level in a certain industry," Kaka said: "In short, it is the level of a genius, similar to you and me. But touch and There is a difference between touch and touch, and you have to admit that there are always people in this world who are more talented than you."
"That's true." Liuying had already reacted to the other party's fallacy, "I understand, the so-called face is luck, right?"
"Of course," Kaka nodded: "People often say that those who achieve one of the four realms can become a master, and those who achieve two of them can reach the top. The three of the four are often the most powerful ones in the history of Aitaria. Shining new stars—like the Ten Kings.”
"What about all four?" Six Shadows couldn't help but ask.
"Isn't that right in front of you?"
"Go away, you are talking nonsense."
Only then did the girl realize that she had successfully led the other party astray again. She gritted her teeth and asked, "I asked you if you found it, and you are talking about this with me?"
Kaka then replied: "Well, it's not that easy. The other party may cover their ship. I guess it's mostly through magic, but the clockwork goblin doesn't have the ability to detect magic. So it's useless to worry. , we have to wait a while longer.”
Six Shadows thought that this was not what he was worried about. But he himself was not a combat craftsman, so he would not be of any use in such a situation. However, although his partner was a combat craftsman, the problem was that the other party looked unreliable at all.
"The other party used magic to cover his ship?" Six Shadows asked: "Then wouldn't it be difficult for you to find the other party?"
"That's not necessarily true," Kaka still shook his head: "The only possibility of covering such a large area is water mist. But water mist only refracts light, not true invisibility. Pictures recorded from different angles will have subtle differences. Different to discover each other.”
"With such a large-scale search, do you have the skills to compare them one by one?" There was a hint of doubt in Liu Ying's eyes, "I have never heard of combat craftsmen having any investigative skills. You shouldn't be there." Are you lying to me?"
"Of course I can't do it," Kaka replied: "But someone can do it. We just need to collect the captured pictures to the information analysis center. There will be professionals there to screen the pictures, but there will be a certain lag. Sex, but that’s enough for a big guy like Sailboat.”
At this time, he took off his goggles, looked at the other party and said, "You guys in the combat team rarely come into contact with the work process of the intelligence collection team. Have you benefited a lot?"
"You've benefited a lot," Liu Ying said angrily, "You're being lazy again."
"That's not true," Kaka shook his head and gestured with the goggles in his hand, his eyes flashing brightly: "It's just that I found them -"
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